Defeat Quotes - Page 28

• The key to the defeat and eventually the end of imperialism as a a whole is the unity of all socialist countries and progressive forces in capitalist countries.

  Tim Buck

  Country, Keys, Socialist Countries

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• Our duty is to rise in the bright daylight, openly, beating the drums. The cause for which we are ready to give our necks does not fear the light, and to attack the enemy by guile would not suit it. A Pole has always despised ambushes, and God forbid that he should change. We shall not fail to have enough strength to defeat our enemies if we do not fail to have the spirit of sacrifice and love.

  Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont

  Sacrifice, Light, Giving

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• I don't think you should feel guilty about pleasure. Defeats the purpose.

  Lena Headey

  Thinking, Purpose, Guilty

  Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. August 17, 2013.

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• When you're running and you are there, there's a little person that talks to you and that little person says “Oh, I'm tired”, “My lounge's about to pop”, “I'm so hurt”, “I'm so tired”, “There's no way I can possibly continue”. And you wanna quit. Right? That person, if you learn how to defeat that person when you're running you will learn how to not quit when things get hard in your life.

  Will Smith

  Running, Hurt, Tired

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• To judge by the event is an error all commit: for in every instance courage, if crowned with success, is heroism; if clouded by defeat, temerity. When Nelson fought his battle in the Sound, it was the result alone that decided whether he was to kiss a hand at court or a rod at a court-martial.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Success, Kissing, Errors

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.231

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• You can defeat fear through humor, through pain, through honesty, bravery, intuition, and through love in the truest sense.

  John Cassavetes

  Honesty, Pain, Bravery

  "Opening Night" by Peter Bogdanovich, www.indiewire.com. March 27, 2011.

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• To hold that Congress has general police power would be to hold that it may accomplish objects not intrusted to the general government, and to defeat the operation of the 10th Amendment, declaring that 'the powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.

  Melville Fuller

  Government, People, Police

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• If a general and his men fear death and are apprehensive over possible defeat, then they will unavoidably suffer defeat and death. But if they make up their minds, from the general down to the last footsoldier, not to think of living but only of standing in one place and facing death together, then, though they may have no other thought than meeting death, they will instead hold on to life and gain victory.

  Yoshida Shoin

  Men, Thinking, Mind

  "Yoshida Shoin Zenshu" by Yoshida Shoin, vol. I, 1938.

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• Conditions to the north of us, in the Voronezh and Steppe Fronts zone of action, and our offensive on Kharkov demands that we not lose time and we commit all forces so that we can draw off as many divisions as possible from Kharkov. And even if we do not draw them off, at least we will not give Manstein the ability to take any of his units from our part of the front. If we attract one or two German tank divisions - it will be the best contribution to the defeat of the enemy in the south.

  Aleksandr Vasilevsky

  Two, Giving, Enemy

  "Soviet Military Deception in the Second World War" by David M. Glantz, (p. 228), 1989.

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• It is in Zen practice that you gain power, balance and wisdom. The battles that you fight are within your own mind. That is where the real victories and defeats are.

  Frederick Lenz

  Real, Fighting, Buddhism

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• This is an election where there is a tea seller from the Opposition, and to defeat him, everyone has come together. They say Modi should not come. This is because those who looted the nation know that after 16th May what is going to happen.

  Narendra Modi

  Tea, Democracy, Together

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• When human laws contradict or discountenance the means, which are necessary to preserve the essential rights of any society, they defeat the proper end of all laws, and so become null and void.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Mean, Rights, Law

  Alexander Hamilton, John Church Hamilton (1850). “The Works of Alexander Hamilton: Miscellanies, 1774-1789: A full vindication; The farmer refuted; Quebec bill; Resolutions in Congress; Letters from Phocion; New-York Legislature, etc”, p.95

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• I want to hold onto that because I think every kid when they dream about playing basketball, they don't dream about being a role player. They dream about being the man. I have that position in Toronto and to give that up and go somewhere else to be an addition would kinda defeat the purpose of my dreams.

  Chris Bosh

  Basketball, Dream, Kids

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• The use of force to liberate people is very different from the use of force to suppress or control them, or even to defeat them.

  Paul Wolfowitz

  People, Different, Use

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• It is worthy to note, that the early popularity of Washington was not the result of brilliant achievement nor signal success; on the contrary, it rose among trials and reverses, and may almost be said to have been the fruit of defeat.

  Washington Irving

  Rose, Achievement, Trials

  Washington Irving “Life of George Washington”

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• There is no final victory, as there is no final defeat. There is just the same battle. To be fought, over and over again. So toughen up, bloody toughen up.

  Tony Benn

  Victory, Battle, Finals

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• Our allies in the Middle East know that the Islamic State is their fight - and they have asked for very specific things to help push back against ISIL.We must give our allies the help they need to confront and defeat this evil.

  Carly Fiorina

  Islamic, Fighting, Evil

  "Carly Fiorina, the other woman". Interview with Glenn Harlan Reynolds, www.usatoday.com. July 19, 2015.

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• Words too familiar, or too remote, defeat the purpose of a poet.

  Samuel Johnson

  Purpose, Poet, Familiar

  Samuel Johnson (1825). “The Lives of the English Poets”, p.115

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• It is through the dispositions of an army that its condition may be discovered. Conceal your dispositions, and your condition will remain secret, which leads to victory,; show your dispositions, and your condition will become patent, which leads to defeat.

  Sun Tzu

  Army, Secret, Victory

  Sun Tzu (2016). “The Art of War”, p.18, Xist Publishing

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• To struggle and battle and overcome and absolutely defeat every force designed against us is the only way to achieve.

  Nannie Helen Burroughs

  Struggle, Battle, Overcoming

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• We don't know what may yet happen to us, what military and political defeats we may yet have to face.

  Moshe Sharett

  Military, Political, May

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• I have the kind of personality that I always look ahead than look at what's happened. It does help a lot, especially when you've done badly or you've failed. It's instinctive of me that I look at what's next, I look ahead a lot, and start preparing for that, in victory and in defeat.

  Rahul Dravid

  Personality, Victory, Doe

  "I Don't Try to Be a Paragon of Virtue: Rahul Dravid". Interview with Saurabh Somani, sports.ndtv.com. October 04, 2013.

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• Never let the defeat of the past rob you of the success of your future.

  Ray Comfort

  Past, Your Future, Our Future

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• I also know that every person faces adversity in life. Abraham Lincoln held this seat in Congress in one term. But few faced as many defeats in his personal, business and public life as he did.

  Aaron Schock

  Adversity, Faces, Congress

  "Disgraced Rep. Aaron Schock Compares Himself To Lincoln In Farewell Speech" by Laura Barron-Lopez, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 26, 2015.

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• Defeat furnishes good material to the poets and the artists, but none of us care to have the glory of the conquered apply to us.

  Susan Glaspell

  Artist, Care, Glory

  Susan Glaspell (2008). “The Glory of the Conquered”, p.48, Wildside Press LLC

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